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May 8, 2024 · According to existentialism: (1) Existence is always particular and individual—always my existence, your existence, his existence, her existence. (2) Existence is primarily the problem of existence (i.e., of its mode of being); it is, therefore, also the investigation of the meaning of
Dec 23, 2021 · The problem with this contention, however, is that different individuals and different social groups (which may be defined by class, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, and/or other sociological variables) will have different conceptions of what ‘a fully human life’ may (or may not) be and different ideas of how it ...
- Simon Susen
Dec 23, 2021 · Still, the problem with especially the Beck formulation of trans-national generations is that it is not clearly defined or demonstrated what such generations ‘are’; what their social, cultural and geographical extents and limits may be; by which means they come into existence (through collective traumas shared by the members of the group ...
- David Inglis
Mar 18, 2021 · This article introduces ‘existence theory’ as a new approach to sociological theory and research. Existence theory starts from the assumption that people organise their lives around a limited set of existential milestones. Cultural expectations are such that without the accomplishment of those milestones, individuals may experience their ...
- Patrick Baert, Marcus Morgan, Rin Ushiyama
- 2021
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Apr 27, 2023 · Defining existentialism. Existentialism is the philosophy that has perhaps most captured the public imagination. It asks fundamental questions about morality and the meaning of life, like “how should I live?”, “what is the point?” & "why am I here?".
Existentialism is the study of existence. If you take existence to be everything that exists — such as chairs and tables, people and llamas — all philosophy, science, and religion would seem to have the same subject. But existentialism isn’t the study of everything that exists; it’s the study of exis-tence itself — the study of what ...
Existentialism is a catch-all term for those philosophers who consider the nature of the human condition as a key philosophical problem and who share the view that this problem is best addressed through ontology. This very broad definition will be clarified by discussing seven key themes that existentialist thinkers address.
